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Graziella - Alphonse de Lamartine (The Nonesuch Press Edition)
LAMARTINE, A. de. Graziella. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929.
The Nonesuch Press edition of Graziella, published in a limited edition of 1,600 copies. This copy is no. 1,206. With 30 illustrations by Jacquier. The illustrations in colour were stencilled by The Curwen Press, which had also printed the binding cloth. Translated by Ralph Wright. Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Menyell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their friend David Garnett, a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Graziella was inspired by the author’s travels through Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in a cigar factory, and whose death after he returned to France would haunt him throughout his writing life. First published in book form in 1852, Graziella is one of the finest works of fiction in the French Romantic tradition.
190 pp. 8vo, original printed cloth, title label to spine, browned. A very good copy in original slipcase (slightly edge-worn).